efferent nerve

Questions about efferent nerve

What does efferent nerve mean?

efferent nerve means "a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands".

What is another word for efferent nerve?

Close synonyms include motor nerve, efferent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is efferent nerve a common word?

efferent nerve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.